Scribbling feverishly on May 02, George Riley managed to emit: > > Scribbling feverishly on May 01, George Riley managed to emit: > > > I have KDE properly installed on my Dell Laptop, and everything is fine > > > if I use runlevel 3 (command line log-in) and then type "startx". > > > However, when I change to runlevel 5 (graphical log-in screen), I am > > > unable to get any window manager except twm. I do have the option > > > to select "kde" on the login screen, but it seems to have no affect. > > > > > > Does anyone know how the graphical login screen initiates the window > > > managers, and which config files I need to dork with to get this right? > > > > Running Linux or some other *nix? Various Linux distributions handle it > > differently. What is the underlying OS and, if Linux, which distibution? > > I have RedHat 7.2. Sorry, I should have stated this in the first place. Red Hat uses a prefdm script that seems to handle the selection of window manager. See the bottom of /etc/inittab, then look at the prefdm script in /etc/X11 (or so). Kurt -- Law of Probable Dispersal: Whatever it is that hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.
